Valeria Gatti Born in Lima, Peru, 1982 Emerging visual artist and Administrator for the Arts by Goldsmiths, University of London. Professor and Historian of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She has been a student in the workshops of the artists Clara Romero and Pancho Guerra García in Lima, Peru. She is currently a student at the workshop of the artist Maite Martinez de Arenaza in Bilbao, Spain.
She emerges as a plastic artist in the midst of the COVID pandemic, achieving acceptance of her artistic production, the same one that she disseminates through social networks. Before emigrating to Bilbao, he participated in the ArtMotiv art fair in Lima Peru (2021).
The works
Recently established in Spain, it develops the seriesNew World Spheres andInner Worlds. New World Spheres it is the approach of the new life in the Old World. This is the "New World" of the artist in which she seeks to fit in, locate herself by turning her gaze towards the memory of Latin America that she leaves behind. In the series, looks towards the historical past of Peru, towards its geography, towards the anecdotes of the artist's life that condition her look at the new place. From this series comeMemory Sphere, New World Sphere and Ricorditi di me. The latter is presented as a return to the Italian roots of the artist in the memory of her feminine maternal legacy together with the classic past of the 40s.
Inner Worlds it is strongly influenced by geometric abstractionism and emotional architecture. These works seek to recreate values of intimacy and serenity from the harmony of color, geometry and light filtering.Inner Worlds it is the necessary look towards oneself and the meeting there of desires for harmony, peace and freedom. There is also here the approach of a new look that allows us to rediscover the beauty of this world and of ourselves in the midst of a context that leads us to think that the world is exactly the opposite.
The series made up of works such asPrimary Wires I and II, Interior Walls I and II, Interior Doors and Windows I and IIis influenced by the use of color from the pre-Hispanic Andean and colonial past as well as the works and ideas of Luis Barragán, Giorgio de Chirico, Dante Alighieri and Adolfo Winternitz.